Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-09-12

The President and Mrs. Cleveland.
GRAND ROUND OF RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS
IN PHILADELPHIA ARRANGED In THEIR HONOR.
President and Mrs. Cleveland and their party,
including Secretary of State Bayard and other
Government officials, will arrive in Philadelphia
from washington Thursday afternoon, and will be
driven at once to the Hotel Lafayette, where ele-
CANT apartments have been prepared for them.
The committee which is arranging the reception
OF the Presidential party and other distinguished
guests Is headed by Mr.. George w. Childs. The
suite OF rooms which MI. and Mrs. Cleveland and
Mrs. Folsom Will occupy are on the first sleeping
floor and extend across the front of the main
building. There is private veranda, from which
Mrs. Cleveland proposes to review the military
parade.
Friday morning the President will be received
the Exchange building. I'd and Dock streets. The
building Is now being elaborately decorated. Be-
side President Cleveland and his Cabinet there
will be present the governors OF the different
States and the officers Of the thirteen trade ex-
changes In the city. The reception will last from
until 1890, and then the President win be es-
where he will review the military parade. The
centennial commissioners will receive the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Cleveland and other distinguished
guests and their wives at the Academy OF Music
on Friday evening from until IL 80.
Saturday morning, from until half-past 10,
President Cleveland will hold public reception
at the Academy Of Fine Arts, and all will have an
opportunity to pay their respects to him without
the formality OF ticket OF invitation. In the
Hiberian Society at st. Georges Hail, and it has
been arranged thatdurtng his absence Jete cham
Detre will be given In honor OF Mrs. Cleveland at
WOOtOn, the elegant country residence Of Mr.. Geo.
w. ChildS, on the Pennsylvania Railroad, ne ar
Bryn Mawr. Mr.. ChildS will spare neither expense
nor trouble in making the fete q brilliant social
success. Among others who will be guests OF Mr.
and Mrs. Chids during the celebration will be Col
and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant, Assistant Bishop
Potter and Mrs. Potter, of New York; Commodore
Gerry, OF the New York Yacht Club, and Senator
Bradbury, OF Maine.
In the evening the President will be the guest of
the University OF Pennsylvania, American Philo-
SOphical Society, Historical Society OF PennSylva-
MIA, College OF Physicians, Franklin Institute of
the State Of Pennsylvania, Academy OF Natural
Sciences, Pennsylvania Academy Of Fine Arts and
will be given by the societies In his honor at the
Academy OF Music. 1t Will be the largest public
dinner OF representative men ever given In the
city. There will be about 600 covers laid. There
Will be about 300 invited guests and about the
same number or subscribers. DR.. VIM. Pepper,
provost OF the University OF Pennsylvania, will
preside, and the toasts which have been arranged
States" responded to by President Cleveland;
''The Judiciary" by Chief Justice Waite; "Con-
greSS," by either Senator Sherman or Senator In
gals; 'The United States OF 1887" by Gov. Lee of
Virginia; "The Army" by Gen. Sheridan; ''The
Navy" by Admiral Luce; ''The Centennial Com
mission" by John A. KaSSOn, president OF the
commission. Owing to the fact that Mr.. and Mrs.
Cleveland desire to return TO Washington the
same evening, the guests Will be seated at $3.50,
an unusually early hour. About $3.50 it is ex-
pected that Mrs. Cleveland and her friends will
rive from Mr.. Childs' country seat Mrs. Cleve-
land will occupy the Prince OF Wales box during
the responses to the tOastS.